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April 16 - 27, 1972

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Statement from NASA Administrator James C. Fletcher at Apollo 16 awards ceremony:
    We live in an age of high technology. This was eminently demonstrated during the Apollo 16 mission, our fifth manned lunar landing. While that outstanding flight was in progress, you overcame a series of difficulties and made it possible for us to go on to gain an unprecedented store of new samples from the Moon and to obtain photographs and other scientific information to help us determine the history of that planet and of the solar system.

    But more importantly, this was a greater triumph from the standpoint of cooperation between scientists and engineers. It demonstrated to us that we must work together, that we must function professionally as a team made up of astronauts and ground technicians bent on putting their skills into service of science with a goal of raising the quality of life here on Earth. Therein lies a lesson that applies to the future of NASA. We must have the finest space engineers, but we also must have other personnel just as sincerely dedicated to the program at hand.

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At a post-flight press conference, Young was asked if he planned to retire after four flights....

"I'm only 40 years old. No, I love our space program. I'll be around until I go out feet first."
John Young, 5-3-72

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"The trail they took into space has further inspired all of us to reach for greater accomplishments."
- Senator Strom Thurmond, welcoming speech for Apollo 16 crew visit to Congress, 5-16-72
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"In order to use science and technology properly in the growth of our country, our people and their ideas, our energy needs, our food requirements, our pollution levels, and to reasonably - and you notice I said 'reasonably' - solve all the many man/planet interface problems, we must provide our scientists and engineers, and the Congress, with more basic facts. We need more basic knowledge and understanding - that first step to progress - so that we can do the right things that we must do to survive on this planet."
- John Young, speaking before Congress after the Apollo 16 mission, 5-16-72
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